ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,267,810, issued on April 1, was assigned to LG Electronics Inc. (Seoul, South Korea).

"Method and apparatus for direct link management in wireless communication system" was invented by Youngdae Lee (Seoul, South Korea), Giwon Park (Seoul, South Korea), Laeyoung Kim (Seoul, South Korea) and Jongyoul Lee (Seoul, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure relates to direct link management wireless communications. According to an embodiment of the present disclosure, a method performed by a first wireless device in a wireless communication system comprises: allocating a link identifier (ID) to a second wireless device ...